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Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 25
Language
English
Description
First published in 1939, Steinbeck's Pulitzer Prize winning epic of the Great Depression chronicles the Dust Bowl migration of the 1930s and tells the story of one Oklahoma farm family, the Joads, driven from their homestead and forced to travel west to the promised land of California. Out of their trials and their repeated collisions against the hard realities of an America divided into haves and have nots evolves a drama that is intensely human...
Author
Publisher
Center Street
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
Born into a family of migrant workers, toiling in the fields by the age of six, Jose M. Hernández dreamed of traveling through the night skies on a rocket ship. [The book] is the inspiring story of how he realized that dream, becoming the first Mexican-American astronaut. Hernández didn't speak English till he was 12, and his peers often joined gangs, or skipped school. And yet, by his twenties he was part of an elite team helping develop technology...
Author
Series
Library of America volume 86
Publisher
Library of America
Pub. Date
1996
Language
English
Author
Language
English
Description
Sanora Babb' s long-hidden novel Whose Names Are Unknown tells an intimate story of the High Plains farmers who fled drought dust storms during the Great Depression. Written with empathy for the farmers' plight, this powerful narrative is based upon the author' s firsthand experience. This clear-eyed and unsentimental story centers on the fictional Dunne family as they struggle to survive and endure while never losing faith in themselves. In the Oklahoma...
9) Reaching out
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Leaving his home in a migrant community, Francisco sets off for college, carrying memories of years of poverty and prejudice.
This volume is the autobiographical account of the author's transition from migrant living on California's central coast to the life of a college student. He chronicles his college years and introduces the people who befriended him as well as those who had prejudices against Mexicans. Throughout his story, the difficulties...
Author
Publisher
Arte Público Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"Ten-year-old José M. Hernández watched the Apollo 17 moonwalks on his family's black and white television in 1972 and knew what he wanted to be when he grew up: an astronaut. Later that night he told his father and was surprised when his dad said, "You can do this, m'ijo!" Mr. Hernández told his son that if he really wanted to become an astronaut, he would need to follow a simple, five-ingredient recipe to succeed: 1) decide what you want, 2)...
Author
Publisher
Piñata Books, an imprint of Arte Público Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
In this bilingual picture book, astronaut José M. Hernández recounts his childhood as the son of Mexican migrant workers and his life-long dream to travel to the stars.
Author
Series
California series in public anthropology volume 27
Publisher
University of California Press
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
"Based on five years of research in the field (including berry-picking and traveling with migrants back and forth from Oaxaca up the West Coast), Holmes, an anthropologist and MD in the mold of Paul Farmer and Didier Fassin, uncovers how market forces, anti-immigrant sentiment, and racism undermine health and health care"--Publisher description.
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.3 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In this fourth book in his award-winning memoir series, Francisco Jimenez leaves everything behind in California--a loving family, a devoted girlfriend, and the culture that shaped him-- to attend Columbia University in New York City"--
Author
Series
Francisco volume 1
Publisher
University of New Mexico Press
Pub. Date
©1997
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Formats
Description
[In this novel], intertwined stories follow a migrant family through their circuit, from picking cotton and strawberries to topping carrots - and back again - over a number of years. As it moves from one labor camp to the next, the little family of four grows into ten. Impermanence and poverty define their lives. But with faith, hope, and back-breaking work, the family endures.-Back cover.
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
©2003
Language
English
Description
"Growing up on his family's orchards in Appleton, Michigan, in the 1950s, Martin Dijksterhuis finds everything he needs in his extended family and in the land itself - in the reassuring routines of growing and harvesting, spraying and pruning. Although his mother wants him to get out of Appleton, which she finds impossibly provincial, and attend a great university - the University of Chicago, her alma mater - he has no desire to leave."
"In the autumn...
Author
Series
Publisher
The University of Arizona Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
All They Will Call You is the harrowing account of the worst airplane disaster in California's history, which claimed the lives of thirty-two passengers, including twenty-eight Mexican citizens-farmworkers who were being deported by the U.S. government. Outraged that media reports omitted only the names of the Mexican passengers, American folk icon Woody Guthrie penned a poem that went on to become one of the most important protest songs of the twentieth...
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